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A 28-year-old Black transgender woman named Brazil Johnson was recently killed in Milwaukee. This week, a few dozen of Johnson’s loved ones gathered where she was killed for a vigil.

Black women experience the highest levels of unintended pregnancies. As a result, they’re three times more likely than white women to seek abortion services, according to the Guttmacher Institute.

Juneteenth Day on Sunday, June 19, 2022, commemorates the freeing of the last enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, 157 years ago. Milwaukee will kick off its 51st year celebrating.

Heal the Hood MKE has been a resource in the Milwaukee community for the past 10 years. Founder Ajamou Butler says they’re projecting close to 2,000 people at Saturday’s block party at 1st and Wright streets in Milwaukee.

Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month is an annual celebration of the historical and cultural contributions of people of Asian descent in the United States. It began as a weeklong celebration in the late 1970s, and eventually encompassed a full month by the 1990s.

Milwaukee Film is hosting its first-ever symposium on pregnancy-related mortality among Black women. WUWM's Teran Powell talks with event’s keynote speaker, actress and mom of two Christina Elmore.

An exhibition at the Walker’s Point Center for the Arts in Milwaukee aims to call attention to the problem of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

America’s Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee’s Bronzeville neighborhood is welcoming visitors once again. The museum’s purpose is to promote the acknowledgment of African American history, from pre-captivity to the present, as an integral part of U.S. history.

The stage play produced by Black Arts, MKE, the Black Nativity, is back in Milwaukee for its sixth year, opening at the Marcus Performing Arts Center December 9.

Milwaukee area churches are demanding an immediate moratorium on what they say are unfair efforts by the city to tax them under threat of foreclosure.